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The representations of destiny in Greek archaic literature need to be studied from a historian’s point of view which combines poetic creation and social evolutions as well as religious beliefs. Whereas Homer’s Iliad creates an epical moira playing a key role in the visualization of aristocratic merits, the Odyssey integrates the destiny in a cosmical function, in which Zeus, previously the origin and active source of the gift of moira, becomes, as cosmic sovereign, a rather passive guardian. In fine, the genealogy of the Moirai, an elaborate poetic conception with important discursives stakes, puts forward another mode of action, in which one can see Zeus’ unending role as dispenser of destiny, in accordance with the hesiodian principle of Dikè.